TV Coverage of the Winter Olympics 2002

The BBC owns the rights to so few major sporting competitions nowadays that it is especially essential they don't muck up the coverage of the events they do cover. And their coverage of the exciting and controversial 2002 Winter Olympics has largely been excellent. Unlike the grand, colourful coverage of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics the budget is seemingly relatively low for the BBC's Salt Lake City programming. There is no specially-composed theme tune, only the same old 'Ski Sunday' theme they've been using for winter sports for about thirty years. There is not much in the way of special features or novel reporting either (unless you ...  Read the complete review

BBC seem to have won the rights to show the entire Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City in 2002 and what an excellent job they have done so far. In fact, they have offered the consumer 2 ways to watch it. Firstly, they have split the daily coverage evenly between BBC1 and BBC2 with BBC2 hosting the majority of live evening coverage of the early events and BBC1 hosting the highlight shows and Later events. Obviously the 7 hour time difference means that the morning events appear on our screens during peak time viewing which would disrupt BBC1 programming and the afternoon sports appearing late at night our time. This is better for BBC1 as it is not ...  Read the complete review

The TV coverage for this Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City has got to be the best yet. With the BBCi service running 24x7, coverage on Euro-sports and also on normal terrestrial TV ensures that you don't miss out on anything. From catching the live action to being able to watch it again later on replays. It is good to see the British competitors making a good effort and with Chimene Alcott getting into 15th position in the downhill in the Women?s Combined event, although with her special funding, private coaching - separate from the British Squad and with her Father having a senior position within the English Ski Council - she should have done a bit better ...  Read the complete review